'I cannot see ahead': psychological distress, doomscrolling and dark future among adult survivors following Mw 7.7. and 7.6 earthquakes in Türkiye
Kartol A, Üztemur S, Yaşar P
BMC public health · 10 citas
Cómo se estudió
- Diseño
- Estudio transversal (indexado por PubMed)
- Estudiado en
- Personas
- Resultado principal
- Marcadores de salud y funcionamiento
Quién lo pagó
- Financiación
- Financiación independiente
Según la declaración de financiación del texto completo.
Publicación
- Publicado
- 2023-12-15 · BMC Public Health · vol. 23 · número 1 · pág. 2513
- Editorial
- BioMed Central
- Citado
- 34 citas · más que el 99% de estudios similares · 8.8× el promedio de su campo
- Impacto
- Entre el 10 % más citado de su campo
- Referencias
- 54 trabajos
- Acceso
- Acceso abierto (revista) · CC-BY
- Áreas de investigación
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Palabras clave
- 2023 Türkiye earthquakes, earthquake survivors, psychological distress, doomscrolling, future anxiety, depression, anxiety, stress, disaster mental health, mediation
- MeSH
- humans, cross-sectional studies, stress, psychological, stress disorders, post-traumatic, adult, survivors, turkey, earthquakes, surveys and questionnaires, psychological distress
3 autores
- Aslı Kartol🇹🇷 · autor de correspondenciaGaziantep University
- Servet Üztemur🇹🇷Anadolu University
- Pınar Yaşar🇹🇷Gaziantep University
Resumen
El texto original del estudio, en el idioma en que se publicó.
Background
The earthquakes, which occurred on 6 February 2023, affecting a total of eleven provinces in Türkiye, with magnitudes of 7.7 and 7.6, and killing around 50,000 people, caused the greatest loss of life compared to previous earthquakes in Türkiye. In this study, we analyse the psychological status of the adult individuals who experienced the earthquakes three months after the earthquakes in terms of different variables.
Methods
In this research, an analytical cross-sectional study was conducted by applying face-to-face and online questionnaires to 402 adult individuals who had experienced the earthquake. The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21), the Dark Future Scale and Doomscrolling Scale were applied. The relationships between variables are discussed in this study using the predictive correlational model.
Results
The results revealed that the participants had very high levels of future anxiety and moderate levels of doomscrolling after the earthquake. Although their psychological distress levels were relatively low, as the psychological distress levels of adult individuals who experienced the earthquake increased, their doomscrolling also increased. In addition, as individuals' future anxiety increases, their doomscrolling increases similarly. The mediation analysis reveals that the mediating role of future anxiety between psychological distress and doomscrolling is significant (p < .001).
Conclusion
Individuals are more exposed to negative news streams in negative life events that occur beyond their control and they need to search for information. Increased levels of depression, anxiety and stress lead to more exposure to this flow. In addition, future anxiety is also an important trigger of this behaviour. The effects of psychological distress on individuals who survived the earthquake are discussed in the context of the literature.
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